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Emerald City; Stories
by Egan, Jennifer
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385482124
- ISBN 13
- 9780385482127
- Seller
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Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996. First edition. First Printing. Paperback. Fine. 178pp. Small 8vo. Illustrated wraps. Author's collection of short stories that follows her debut "The Invisible Circus." Signed on title page. This is an Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Complete number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1), no marks, barest shelf wear, crisp, tight, unread, stated First Edition in the United States of America. In a removable plastic cover.
Synopsis
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge.She is the author of three novels, The Invisible Circus , Look at Me , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Keep , as well as a collection of stories, Emerald City . She has published short fiction in The New Yorker , Harper's , Zoetrope and Ploughshares , among others, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine . She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.
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Details
- Seller
- Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000940
- Title
- Emerald City; Stories
- Author
- Egan, Jennifer
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385482124
- ISBN 13
- 9780385482127
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Collectible - Like New; Signed; First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2007
Port St. Lucie, Florida
About Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
Specializing in modern mystery, fantasy/science fiction, general fiction, Subterranean Press books, and photography books. Many of these are signed by the authors.
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